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Flygfesten is one of the biggest airshows in Europe. It attracts around 50.000 attendees. Flygfesten is an eventful weekend with world class pilots and airplanes. Flygfesten has been organized every three to four years since the re-launch in 1986. It is held in Sweden by Västerdalarnas Aero club, an aeroclub located in Dala-Järna in Vansbro municipality, with about 7000 inhabitants.
Although the air show is the major focal area, Flygfesten aims to make the show more than just a regular flight display but a festival, where Saturday’s and Sunday’s air show are complemented with evening entertainment during Friday and Saturday night in the form of dance, rock, disco and fun fair.
Flygfesten is a non-profit arrangement and is held to promote the activity of the club in particular and to aviation in general. It offers a good forum for aviation enthusiasts to meet other likeminded, while it is a fine opportunity for the Club to recruit new members.
flygfesten.com/english
The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with relaxed stability design and fly-by-wire flight controls. Later aircraft are fully NATO interoperable. As of 2020, more than 271 Gripens of all models, A–F, have been built.
The Gripen is intended as a light-weight and agile aerial platform with advanced, highly adaptable avionics. It has canard control surfaces that contribute a positive lift force at all speeds, while the generous lift from the delta wing compensates for the rear stabiliser producing negative lift at high speeds, increasing induced drag. Being intentionally unstable and employing digital fly-by-wire flight controls to maintain stability removes many flight restrictions, improves manoeuvrability, and reduces drag. The Gripen also has good short take-off performance, being able to maintain a high sink rate and strengthened to withstand the stresses of short landings. A pair of air brakes are located on the sides of the rear fuselage. The canards also angle downward to act as air brakes and decrease landing distance. It is capable of flying at a 70–80 degrees angle of attack.
To enable the Gripen to have a long service life, roughly 50 years, Saab designed it to have low maintenance requirements. Major systems such as the RM12 engine and PS-05/A radar are modular to reduce operating cost and increase reliability. The Gripen was designed to be flexible, so that newly developed sensors, computers, and armaments could be integrated as technology advances. The aircraft was estimated to be roughly 67% sourced from Swedish or European suppliers and 33% from the US.
One key aspect of the Gripen programme that Saab have been keen to emphasize has been technology-transfer agreements and industrial partnerships with export customers. The Gripen is typically customized to customer requirements, enabling the routine inclusion of local suppliers in the manufacturing and support processes.
SPECS (JAS 39E)
Crew: 1
Length: 15.2 m
Wingspan: 8.6 m
Height: 4.5 m
Wing area: 30 m2
Empty weight: 8000 kg
MTOW: 16500 kg
Fuel capacity: 3400 kg internal; 3537 kg external with 3 drop tanks (2x1700L + 1x1135L)
Payload: 7200 kg
Powerplant: 1 × General Electric RM16 (F414-GE-39E) afterburning
turbofan engine, 61.83 kN thrust dry, 98 kN w/ A/B
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: 2460 km/h
Combat range: 1500 km
Ferry range: 4000 km
Service ceiling: 16000 m
G limits: +9, -3
Wing loading: 283 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 1.04
Take-off distance: 500 m
Landing distance: 600 m
Guns: 1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon with 120 rounds
Hardpoints: 10
Find out more about the Gripen here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
saab.com/products/air/fighter-systems
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Flygfesten is one of the biggest airshows in Europe. It attracts around 50.000 attendees. Flygfesten is an eventful weekend with world class pilots and airplanes. Flygfesten has been organized every three to four years since the re-launch in 1986. It is held in Sweden by Västerdalarnas Aero club, an aeroclub located in Dala-Järna in Vansbro municipality, with about 7000 inhabitants.
Although the air show is the major focal area, Flygfesten aims to make the show more than just a regular flight display but a festival, where Saturday’s and Sunday’s air show are complemented with evening entertainment during Friday and Saturday night in the form of dance, rock, disco and fun fair.
Flygfesten is a non-profit arrangement and is held to promote the activity of the club in particular and to aviation in general. It offers a good forum for aviation enthusiasts to meet other likeminded, while it is a fine opportunity for the Club to recruit new members.
flygfesten.com/english
The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with relaxed stability design and fly-by-wire flight controls. Later aircraft are fully NATO interoperable. As of 2020, more than 271 Gripens of all models, A–F, have been built.
The Gripen is intended as a light-weight and agile aerial platform with advanced, highly adaptable avionics. It has canard control surfaces that contribute a positive lift force at all speeds, while the generous lift from the delta wing compensates for the rear stabiliser producing negative lift at high speeds, increasing induced drag. Being intentionally unstable and employing digital fly-by-wire flight controls to maintain stability removes many flight restrictions, improves manoeuvrability, and reduces drag. The Gripen also has good short take-off performance, being able to maintain a high sink rate and strengthened to withstand the stresses of short landings. A pair of air brakes are located on the sides of the rear fuselage. The canards also angle downward to act as air brakes and decrease landing distance. It is capable of flying at a 70–80 degrees angle of attack.
To enable the Gripen to have a long service life, roughly 50 years, Saab designed it to have low maintenance requirements. Major systems such as the RM12 engine and PS-05/A radar are modular to reduce operating cost and increase reliability. The Gripen was designed to be flexible, so that newly developed sensors, computers, and armaments could be integrated as technology advances. The aircraft was estimated to be roughly 67% sourced from Swedish or European suppliers and 33% from the US.
One key aspect of the Gripen programme that Saab have been keen to emphasize has been technology-transfer agreements and industrial partnerships with export customers. The Gripen is typically customized to customer requirements, enabling the routine inclusion of local suppliers in the manufacturing and support processes.
SPECS (JAS 39E)
Crew: 1
Length: 15.2 m
Wingspan: 8.6 m
Height: 4.5 m
Wing area: 30 m2
Empty weight: 8000 kg
MTOW: 16500 kg
Fuel capacity: 3400 kg internal; 3537 kg external with 3 drop tanks (2x1700L + 1x1135L)
Payload: 7200 kg
Powerplant: 1 × General Electric RM16 (F414-GE-39E) afterburning
turbofan engine, 61.83 kN thrust dry, 98 kN w/ A/B
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: 2460 km/h
Combat range: 1500 km
Ferry range: 4000 km
Service ceiling: 16000 m
G limits: +9, -3
Wing loading: 283 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 1.04
Take-off distance: 500 m
Landing distance: 600 m
Guns: 1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon with 120 rounds
Hardpoints: 10
Find out more about the Gripen here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
saab.com/products/air/fighter-systems
#flygfesten #flygfesten2022 #gripen #jas39 #jas39gripen #airshow
#sweden #saab #aviation
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![DASSAULT RAFALE, Crazy Agile Flights! ✈️ MAKS 2013 [Remastered]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/evW2jX2CREc/mqdefault.jpg "DASSAULT RAFALE, Crazy Agile Flights! ✈️ MAKS 2013 [Remastered]
Dassault Rafale Solo Display Team showing off the great agility of this superb fighter at MAKS 2013 International Air and Space Salon.
Back in the day my footage was quite shaky but now I have better means of stabilization and color grading so I wanted to resurrect a few videos and give them a bit of polish... Hope youll appreciate the effort! :)
The Dassault Rafale (French pronunciation: [ʁafal], literally meaning gust of wind, and burst of fire in a more military sense) is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear deterrence missions. The Rafale is referred to as an omnirole aircraft by Dassault.
In the late 1970s, the French Air Force and French Navy were seeking to replace and consolidate their current fleets of aircraft. In order to reduce development costs and boost prospective sales, France entered into an arrangement with the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain to produce an agile multi-purpose Future European Fighter Aircraft (which would become the Eurofighter Typhoon). Subsequent disagreements over workshare and differing requirements led to Frances pursuit of its own development programme. Dassault built a technology demonstrator which first flew in July 1986 as part of an eight-year flight-test programme, paving the way for the go-ahead of the project. The Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era in that it is almost entirely built by one country, involving most of Frances major defence contractors, such as Dassault, Thales and Safran.
Many of the aircrafts avionics and features, such as direct voice input, the RBE2 AA active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the optronique secteur frontal infrared search and track (IRST) sensor, were domestically developed and produced for the Rafale programme. Originally scheduled to enter service in 1996, the Rafale suffered significant delays due to post-Cold War budget cuts and changes in priorities. The aircraft is available in three main variants: Rafale C single-seat land-based version, Rafale B twin-seat land-based version, and Rafale M single-seat carrier-based version. Introduced in 2001, the Rafale is being produced for both the French Air Force and Navy.
The Rafale was developed as a modern jet fighter with a very high level of agility; Dassault chose to combine a delta wing with active close-coupled canard to maximize manoeuvrability. The aircraft is capable of withstanding from −3.6g to 9g (10.5g on Rafale solo display and a maximum of 11g can be reached in case of emergency). The Rafale is an aerodynamically unstable aircraft and uses digital fly-by-wire flight controls to artificially enforce and maintain stability. The aircrafts canards also act to reduce the minimum landing speed to 115 knots (213 km/h); while in flight, airspeeds as low as 15 knots (28 km/h) have been observed during training missions. According to simulations by Dassault, the Rafale has sufficient low speed performance to operate from STOBAR-configured aircraft carriers, and can take off using a ski-jump with no modifications.
SPECS
Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 15.27 m
Wingspan: 10.90 m
Height: 5.34 m
Wing area: 45.7 m2
Empty weight: 9850 kg - 10600 kg
Gross weight: 15000 kg
MTOW: 24500 kg
Fuel capacity:
· 4700 kg internal for single-seater
· 4400 kg internal for two-seater
Maximum fuel: 16550 L (5750 L internal + 2300 L in 2x conformal tanks + 8500 L in 5 drop tanks)
Powerplant: 2 × Snecma M88-4e turbofans
· 50.04 kN thrust each (dry)
· 75 kN thrust each (with afterburner)
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed:
· 1912 km/h / Mach 1.8 at high altitude
· 1390 km/h / Mach 1.1 at low altitude
Supercruise: Mach 1.4
Combat range: 1850 km on penetration mission with three tanks (5700 L combined), two SCALP-EG and two MICA AAMs
Ferry range: 3700 km with 3 drop tanks
Service ceiling: 15835 m
g limits: +9 −3.6 (+11 in emergencies)
Rate of climb: 304.8 m/s
Wing loading: 328 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 0.988 (100% fuel, 2 EM A2A missile, 2 IR A2A missile)
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